SUNDAY GUNFIRINGS

Free gun-firing events presented by Portsdown Artillery Volunteers and Ubique: Right of the Line.

There will be two gun firing times per day: 1pm and 3pm.

There will be three gun firings on Sunday 10 November: 11am and a second following a 2-minute silence as a mark of Remembrance, a third gun firing will take place at 1pm.

Sunday 30 June

64-Pounder Saluting Gun

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

Sunday 4 Aug

7-Inch Armstrong RBL

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

Sunday 1 Sept

25-Pounder Howitzer

Ubique

Sunday 29 Sept

13-inch LS Mortar

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

Sunday 20 Oct

Trafalgar Day – 12-Pounder Naval Cannon

Ubique

Sunday 27 Oct

64-Pounder Saluting Gun

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

Sunday 10 Nov

Remembrance – 2.95-inch Quick Firing Mountain Gun

Ubique

Sunday 23 Feb

16-Pounder Field Gun

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

Sunday 23 March

64-Pounder Saluting Gun

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

There are extra gun firings on Armistice Day (November 11) – A 2.95-inch Quick Firing Mountain Gun will be fired to mark the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month – commemorating the moment when the guns fell silent on the Western Front in 1918. The 11am gun salute will be followed by a second, marking completion of the two-minute silence; plus a further firing at 1pm.